Elaine Shaffer was an American flutist and principal of the Houston Symphony Orchestra between 1948 and 1953.
Léon Jean Goossens, CBE, FRCM was an English oboist.
Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German–Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.
James Ehnes, is a Canadian concert violinist and violist.
Gil Shaham is an American violinist of Jewish descent.
Ruth Laredo was an American classical pianist.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56, commonly known as the Triple Concerto, was composed in 1803 and published in 1804 by Breitkopf & Härtel. The choice of the three solo instruments effectively makes this a concerto for piano trio, and it is the only concerto Beethoven ever completed for more than one solo instrument. A typical performance takes approximately thirty-seven minutes.
Richard Goode is an American classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven.
Janine Jansen is a Dutch violinist and violist.
Julia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist. She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year.
Hephzibah Menuhin was an American-Australian pianist, writer, and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser.
Discography for the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23, written in 1853, was his only violin concerto and one of his last significant compositions. It remained unknown to all but a very small circle for more than 80 years after it was written.
Yaltah Menuhin was an American-born British pianist, artist and poet.
Valeriy Sokolov is a Ukrainian violinist.
Emanuel "Manny"Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is a teacher at the Juilliard School.
Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova is a Russian-British violinist.
Leonard Hokanson was an American pianist who achieved prominence in Europe as a soloist and chamber musician.
David Serkin Ludwig is an American composer, teacher, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School. His uncle was pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
Carolin Widmann is a German classical violinist. She focuses mainly on contemporary music. She plays a violin made in 1782 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.
